Federation for Disability Organizations in Malawi (Fedoma) has established youth network which has since elected new executive committee to, among other objectives, advocate for the rights of youth with disabilities. Initiated on 26th June this year, the formation of the Fedoma Youth Network follows a revelation by YONECO that estimated 98 percent of youth with […]
People with Disabilities manifested in Lilongwe on Tuesday as they = gathered at the Ministry of Disabilities and the Elderly, demanding that they be assisted with grants to run self-sustenance businesses. Lilongwe Chairperson who is leading the group, Elifa M’bwana, has vowed the group will not budge until they are positively addressed. The group claims […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Wednesday at the Special Olympics in South Korea took the centre stage to answer questions from journalists on what the third world is doing to improve lives of people with intellectual and physical disabilities. Banda is the only African Head of State who has been invited to the Special Olympics […]
People with hearing impairments in Malawi bemoan the failure to include the use of sign language on state-owned TV. People with visual impairments complain that the bank notes, which Malawi has recently introduced, do not have features to enable them distinguish and identify the different denominations. And the list goes on. The simple fact is […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has stressed the need for people with disabilities to be supported for their lives to improve after members of Federation of Disability Organisation in Malawi (FEDOMA) asked her government to push the tabling and passing of Dissability Bill. Disability Bill, which was drafted several years ago but has not yet been […]